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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, learners use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...
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Topmarks Online

Topmark: Stories From the Old Testament and Torah: The Story of Joseph

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is a site for children telling and illustrating the story of Joseph from the Hebrew Scriptures
Article
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Moyers on Addiction: Real Life Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS online presents six stories illustrating the struggle undergone by both adults and teens. Each individual story describes a unique perspective on the substance they abused and how it adversely affected their lives.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Action Packed Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students learn to use whole numbers and the operations of addition and subtraction. They choose a number, create a story Using the number selected and illustrate the number story. They represent the action in the story on the calculator.
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Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Character: Lesson 1: Physical Attributes of a Character

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing and illustrating activity, students will be able to follow a simple rock cycle to follow the life of "Rocky the Rock". After investigating the rock cycle, students will then be able to illustrate the rock cycle, along...
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PBS

Pbs: African American Migration Story: Many Rivers to Cross

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed presentation illustrating the history of Africans migrating to the Americas from as early as 1500 through the late 1860's. Review the distribution of Africans in North and South America, the initial settlements, escaped and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: When (Seasons, Day, or Night)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Setting Kindergarten Unit: Where

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the book Gaspard at the Seashore by Anne Gutman to teach clues students can use to determine where a story takes place. The book must be provided by the teacher, but downloadable worksheets for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Stories and Illustrations I Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video models how to solve a multiplication word problem using pictures, writing the number sentence and solving. The video is followed by a series of practice...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Stories and Illustrations Ii Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video models how to solve a multiplication word problem using pictures, writing the number sentence and solving.
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Education.com

Education.com: rl.k.7 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets that help students practice the following Common Core State Standards skill: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Eric Carle Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about your favorite children's author, Eric Carle, when you visit this biography. Students and teachers will gain a new perspective of this author's life and work.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Experience Teaches and Other Stories by G. Path

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Experience Teaches and Other Stories by G. Path, a collection of children's stories that illustrate familiar proverbs.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bear Stories: A Glance at the Bear Family by Ernest Ingersoll

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bear Stories: A Glance at the Bear Family by Ernest Ingersoll (c1884), a collection of ten true bear stories with illustrations.
Graphic
National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Find a Pattern Using Children's Literature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the problem-solving strategy of "find a pattern" to predict the number of grains of rice Rani (from the book, One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi) will receive after 30 days. Students use a spreadsheet to...
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Library of Congress

Library of Congress: Classic Books

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read these beloved classic stories with their original illustrations. 23 books for children, including The Three Little Pigs and Denslow's Humpty Dumpty. 6 novels for teens, including Poe's The Raven and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. All...
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Library of Congress

Library of Congress: Classic Books

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read these beloved classic stories with their original illustrations. 23 books for children, including The Three Little Pigs and Denslow's Humpty Dumpty. 6 novels for teens, including Poe's The Raven and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. All...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Word Hunt

For Students K - 1st Standards
Help write a story about a rabbit in a garden by choosing words to describe the rabbit and to tell what action the rabbit likes to do. Then watch these choices come to life in the cartoon illustrations.
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Other

Literary Gothic: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a brief discussion of the supernatural, gothic elements of some of Freeman's (1852-1930 CE) work, along with links to other Freeman pages and stories, some with illustrations. A plus is the pre-written MLA style citation...
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Other

Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: "One World" [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Reading unit plan about endangered animals from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training entitled "One World" (Forty-four page PDF file). It contains ten days worth of teaching suggestions that use a variety...
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Read Works

Read Works: Setting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...
Interactive
ABCya

Abc Ya: Story Maker

For Students K - 1st Standards
Create your own story using the tools on this site. You can add a title page, type your story, and illustrate it using the paint tools. The story can then be saved and printed.